Electric Vehicles International

Acquisition Adds EVs to a Growing First Priority Product Line,Current Climate Is ‘As Good an Entry Point as Ever’s Been Seen’

New Jersey-based First Priority GreenFleet has acquired the assets of Electric Vehicles International in Stockton, Calif. – adding to a growing product line of alternative fuel vehicles. First Priority GreenFleet, “a total solutions provider to sustainable fleets,” is a unit of the specialty vehicle supplier First Priority Global. updated March 9Read More >>

Colorado’s UQM Technologies reported a new order from Electric Vehicles International for UQM’s PowerPhase HD 220 electric drive systems, for delivery later this calendar year to power all-electric walk-in vans and medium-duty commercial trucks.Read More >>

The U.S. Air Force and California Energy Commission celebrated deployment of a long-awaited fleet of 42 mostly V2G-capable vehicles at the Los Angeles Air Force Base on Friday. By letting charged EVs give electricity back to the grid when needed, vehicle-to-grid technology allows the fleet “to provide more than 700 kilowatts of power to the grid, sufficient power for more than 140 American homes,” the Air Force says, talking up V2G as a way to both save money and enhance security. updated November 18Read More >>

California’s Kings Canyon Unified School District is getting set to unveil a 100% battery electric refrigerated box truck it plans to add to its fleet of reefers this summer. The truck is a Freightliner M2 converted to battery electric operation by Electric Vehicles International. It has an electric cold box by Texas-based Cold Car.Read More >>

The U.S. Department of Defense is deploying several dozen battery electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles around the country, with a view to demonstrating how V2G – vehicle-to-grid – technology can help take the strain off of the electric grid during peak hours by utilizing the vehicles’ batteries.Read More >>

San Francisco-based Pacific Gas & Electric has taken delivery of new hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that promise to significantly reduce fleet fuel usage. The new trucks include the utility’s first Class 8 hybrid, its first Ford F-550 PHEV by Electric Vehicles International with UQM driveline, and the first production range-extended electric pickup from Via Motors.Read More >>

The California Energy Commission is backing development of a hybrid electric Class 5 work truck by Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Electric Vehicles International. They are to formally kick off the program at EVI headquarters in Stockton on Thursday, September 19.Read More >>

Kenworth Fleet to Be Augmented, Macks & CNG in New Plan
‘Every Tractor We Buy for Domestic Ops Will Be Natural Gas’

UPS is adding even more natural gas vehicles to its existing fleet of 112 LNG tractors, augmenting recently announced plans for some 700 new LNG trucks with word that it would add 250 more, plus 35 fueled by CNG – all part of an additional $75 million for natural gas transportation to be invested by the end of 2014.Read More >>

Electric Vehicles International is seeking bids for motors, controllers, charging systems, EVSE (electrical vehicle supply equipment) and die casting and metal fabrication services as it ramps up production of all-battery trucks in Stockton, Calif. EVI is taking bids until March 22.Read More >>

California Gov. Jerry Brown and U.S. EPA regional administrator Jared Blumenfeld called for more electric vehicles as UPS celebrated the deployment of its first pure battery electric delivery vans from Electric Vehicles International, of Stockton, Calif.

“California will be home to 105 all-electric delivery trucks, the largest deployment in any state,” PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America unit said last week as the company hosted officials including California Governor Jerry Brown at the Frito-Lay distribution center in Torrance, Calif.Read More >>